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Arsenal have been handed a huge blow in pursuit of midfield summer target. Real Madrid are now ready to allow Arsenal target Asier Illarramendi to join Liverpool, according to reports. The Reds have been heavily linked with a move for the 25-year-old midfielder

A swashbuckling display from Laurent Koscielny earned Arsenal a gritty win in the North East to earn his club a valuable Champions League place next season. The French defender weighed in with crucial contributions at both ends of the pitch to

When Theo Walcott latched onto Mikel Arteta’s pass to score after just 20 seconds, a convincing victory seemed certain. After all, we were playing the bottom side who’d been relegated with a whimper last weekend and hadn’t managed a goal in

There will never be a better time to play Manchester United. It looked as though their players had been partying all week and only put down their champagne glasses five minutes before kick off. That’s how off the pace they were

It’s a good job that results are the be-all and end-all at this stage of the season because there’s nothing positive to come out of today’s match other than the three points. That’s not to underestimate their value of course —

Well, that was close. A supposedly ‘easy’ match at home to struggling Norwich was treated as such by Arsenal yesterday and they almost squandered the chance of applying real pressure to Chelsea and Spurs. Thankfully the introduction of Walcott, Podolski and

Today’s performance was what we should’ve seen when we played Blackburn last month — a Premiership heavyweight swatting aside a Championship side with a professional, determined display. Because without wishing to be too unkind to Reading, that’s what they are really

Earlier in the day all the talk was about Wenger resting Cazorla, Mertesacker and Walcott for Swansea on Saturday, thereby ‘giving up’ and allowing the Germans an easy win. The Daily Mail in particular went to town, writing three separate articles

As I tried to decide on a headline for this report, I encountered a few problems. Referring to our defending I was going to put ‘We keep making the same mistakes’ but realised I’d already used that for the Blackburn debacle.

A late strike from Santi Cazorla rescued a win for Wenger’s men after more defensive ineptitude had given Aston Villa the chance of an unlikely point. The Spaniard turned in Monreal’s low cross to spark celebrations of sheer relief around the